Africa Knowledge Management Portal
Informing health decisions and actions
Description
In recent years, visibility and political support for malaria has continued to increase dramatically. This policy brief is a summary of WHO��s recommended technical strategies to combat the disease. Its purpose is to present, in one concise document, a summary of WHO guidance that will assist countries to develop funding proposals, including concept notes for the Global Fund. It will also help countries to appropriately select intervention strategies and to budget for them. Key interven-tion areas include: malaria case management (malaria diagnosis and treatment); malaria vector control; malaria prevention for special groups (pregnant women, children and infancy); and surveillance, monitoring and evaluation. The document highlights technical areas and implementa-tion activities that countries should ensure are included in proposals, with appropriate funding for effective implementation. This policy briefing is not intended as a substitute for the published WHO documents on which it is based; it is intended to be a concise overview to be used in conjunction with a separate document entitled, Malaria: Compilation of WHO reference docu-ments, 2014.